Review Request 129647: Add --nofork as compatibility alias for --separate

[Martin Tobias Holmedahl Sandsmark]

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looks good to me.

but reminds me that I don't like string literals being hardcoded in different places.

- Martin Tobias Holmedahl Sandsmark


On Dec. 13, 2016, 8:21 a.m., Harald Sitter wrote:
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> (Updated Dec. 13, 2016, 8:21 a.m.)
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> Review request for Konsole.
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> Repository: konsole
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> Description
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> In previous incarnations of kuniqueapplication it used to inject a common
> command option --nofork which is meant to bypass single-instance behavior.
> Given that konsole can and is being invoked from scripts they may well want
> to ensure that the fork they created is the actual instance of konsole.
> i.e. to monitor return values and life time
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> Presently, since the options are divergent between konsole4 and konsole5,
> scripts are either incompatible with older konsoles or with newer konsoles.
> To make life easier for everyone add an compat alias --nofork, which
> behaves exactly like separate.
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> (this unbreaks steam, which is a notable recent offender of falling into
>  this particular trap)
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> Diffs
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>   src/Application.cpp 5b352ec9b10899b44abbd6ee1609422ef1434620 
>   src/main.cpp 26d3da990b6aee564c0c9a237a56a65b1d372508 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/129647/diff/
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> Testing
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> builds + noforks + separates
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> poor steam also is happily opening a konsole now
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> Thanks,
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> Harald Sitter
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